Chase Davenport Quotes

there, looking for a man they wouldn’t find. They’d go because they’d know for sure that Horn couldn’t be in Goodhue County, where he’d be known and chased on sight. . . . Horn had suggested another step: killing a woman from the Alexandria area, still farther

He watched her hurry inside, and fought the urge to chase her. He wanted to tie her down and force her to share with him. Force her to admit she couldn’t just walk away unaffected. But he wouldn’t do that. He wouldn’t push her again. He’d laid his heart on the line and she’d said no thanks. He was finished begging.

The most powerful aspect of any bureaucracy, in Kidd’s eyes, was the same thing that gave cancer its power: it was immortal. If you didn’t seek it out and kill it, cell by cell, it’d just keep growing. Bureaucracies could chase you forever. You could defeat them over and over and over again, and the bureaucracy didn’t much care, though some individual bureaucrats might. The bureaucracy, as a whole, just kept coming, as long as the funding lasted.